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Allah's Miracles in the Qur'an

The Distance between the Earth and the Moon:

- If they were just a little closer, the Moon would crash into the
Earth.
- If they were any further, the Moon would become lost in space.
- If they were even a little closer, the Moon's effect on the Earth's
tides would reach dangerous dimensions. Ocean waves would inun-

date low-lying areas. The friction emerging as a result of this would
raise the temperature of the oceans and the sensitive temperature bal-
ance essential to life on Earth would disappear.
- If they were even a little further away, the tides would decrease,

leading the oceans to be less mobile. Immobile water would endanger
life in the seas, and the level of the oxygen we breathe would be endan-
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The Temperature of the Earth and Carbon-Based Life:

The existence of carbon, the basis of all life, depends on the tem-
perature remaining within specific limits. Carbon is an essential sub-
stance for organic molecules such as amino-acid, nucleic acid and pro-

tein: These constitute the basis of life. For that reason, life can only be
carbon-based. Given this, the existing temperature needs to be no lower
than -20 degrees and no higher than 120 degrees Celsius (248 F). These
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are just the temperature limits on Earth.
These are just a few of the exceedingly sensitive balances which

are essential for life on Earth to have emerged and to survive. Yet even
these are sufficient to definitively reveal that the Earth and the universe
could not have come into being as the result of a number of consecutive
coincidences. The concepts of "fine-tuning" and the "anthropic princi-

ple" that began to be employed in the 20th century are further evidence
of Allah's creation. The harmony and proportion therein were
described with magnificent accuracy fourteen centuries ago in the
Qur'an.

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